Year: 2025

This blog usually emphasizes hydrological processes. This post takes a large step back and looks at a much broader scientific picture. The date referenced above marks the moment when humans, through consumption, have exhausted the planet’s natural resources that were available for the entire year. This simplified scientific exercise, explained here, is valuable to better…Continue Reading July 24, 2025

The Hydrology team from the YukonU Research Centre – Climate Change Research Group – is leading a project that will improve understanding and the ability to forecast the timing and intensity of river ice breakup in communities of the Yukon where the risk of ice jam floods is significant. This project is supported by Environment…Continue Reading Breakup at Dawson in 2025 : What have we learned?

Following the previous blog post about dangerous winter conditions along Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek) near the YukonU Ayamdigut Campus in Whitehorse, here is a time-lapse video showing the freeze-up processes. A camera was installed near the creek channel prior to freeze-up, and it took 3 pictures per day (one picture every 8 hours) until January….Continue Reading Fascinating ice, dangerous ice (2)